Dogs and humans have lived together for thousands of years and share many analogous
socio-cognitive skills. Dog neuroimaging now provides insight into the neural bases of these …

Highlights•Comparison of vocal individuality between life-history stages allows for
identification of selection pressures and potential strategic use by senders.•Vocal …

When addressing preverbal infants and family dogs, people tend to use specific speech
styles. While recent studies suggest acoustic parallels between infant-and dog-directed …

To learn words, humans extract statistical regularities from speech. Multiple species use
statistical learning also to process speech, but the neural underpinnings of speech …

The brains of humans and non-human primates exhibit left/right asymmetries in grey matter
morphology, white matter connections, and functional responses. These asymmetries have …

Family dogs are exposed to a continuous flow of human speech throughout their lives.
However, the extent of their abilities in speech perception is unknown. Here, we used …

Human brains process lexical meaning separately from emotional prosody of speech at
higher levels of the processing hierarchy. Recently we demonstrated that dog brains can …

Voice-sensitivity in the auditory cortex of a range of mammals has been proposed to be
determined primarily by tuning to conspecific auditory stimuli, but recent human findings …

In humans, social relationship with the speaker affects neural processing of speech, as
exemplified by children's auditory and reward responses to their mother's utterances. Family …

Functional hemispheric asymmetry was evidenced in many species during sleep. Dogs
seem to show hemispheric asymmetry during wakefulness; however, their asymmetric …